The lab is led by Dr. Lei Zhang and is based at the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK, with access to exceptional facilities including MRI, MEG, TMS, and fNIRS.
The lab has a strong emphasis on equality, diversity and supporting lab members to thrive.
Our research applies addresses the fundamental question of the "adaptive brain” by studying the cognitive, computational, and neurobiological basis of (social) learning and decision-making in healthy individuals (across the lifespan), and in psychiatric disorders. We combine an array of approaches including neuroimaging, patient studies and computational modelling (particularly hierarchical Bayesian modelling) with behavioural paradigms inspired by learning theories.
Principal Investigator Lei Zhang
Post-doctoral researchers Anne Saulin
PhD Students Aamir Sohail Gwynnevere Suter
Research Assistants Kübra Fethiye Karatas
Affiliated members Yi-Chen (Eden) Hsieh (co-supervised with Patricia Lockwood)